OTOH, you may learn a lot by using something that's harder to use. 
Trial by fire.  I started off with Slackware, myself, mostly by
accident/ignorance.

Another option is to install a bunch of different stuff.  I just got a
new 15 GB drive, and am trying to figure out how many different OS's I
can get on it.  Solaris, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Plan9, BeOS, and Linux are my
choices.  (No Window$ in my house!)  One of the things I definitely want
to do is create a Linux install from scratch, without a distro.  That
should be a learning experience, and a step up from making custom rescue
disks from scratch.

BTW, the new 15GB drive is for machine #4.  #1 is my main workstation,
running RH6.2.  #2 is my firewall.  #3 is the public server, which is in
a DMZ (separate NIC off the firewall).  I like to keep those three
stable, so the new one will be rebuilt constantly.  :-)  Everything
besides the main workstation is fairly dated (two are sub-pentium), but
still quite adequate.

-BVG

KeithSmith wrote:
> 
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> I think you are right.  I need a lot more
> experience.
> 
> Thanks,
> Keith
> 
> Kevin Buettner wrote:
> >
> > On Jun 15, 12:55pm, KeithSmith wrote:
> >
> > > I am running OpenLinux by Caldera 2.3 and am
> > > wondering if there would be any advantage to
> > > switching to OpenBSD?
> >
> > My advice:  stick with Linux for a while and gain some experience with
> > it first.  You'll find that nearly all of the skills that you pick up
> > with linux will be readily transferable to *bsd should you decide to
> > move there in the future.
> >
> > For the time being, Linux is where much of the mindshare is.  You'll
> > find more books on Linux, more web pages dealing with Linux, more
> > third party support for Linux, etc.  Plus many of the folks on this
> > (local) list will be able to answer your linux questions whereas we'd
> > be hard pressed to do so for OpenBSD.  (I have no idea if there's a
> > comparable *BSD group in AZ.)
> >
> > Kevin
> >
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